SC - Price of butter

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Marilyn Traber wrote, re margarine:
> 
> a purified and chemically altered form of vegetable oil modified to be lightly
> yellow with a flavor reminiscent of butter.
> 
> http://www.margarine.org/homepage.html
> 
> margali

Originally an emulsion made from refined beef tallow, a bit of water,
and dried milk solids, invented during the Napoleonic wars as a food
with a somewhat longer shelf-life than real butter. Oleo, because it was
made from fat, and margarine, because its surface was vaguely "pearlescent".

G. Tacitus "Everything You Never Wanted To Know" Adamantius
Østgardr, East
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Phil & Susan Troy

troy at asan.com
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